Brussels (AP): Iran's ambassador to the European Union said on Wednesday he presented a new package of proposals to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to resolve international concerns over his country's nuclear program and wider security issues.

Ambassador Ali Asghar Khaji said Iran wanted to play a role alongside global powers like the US, the 27-nation EU, Russia, China and others to address what he called pressing security issues related to the spread of nuclear weapons.

"Hopefully the offer will be welcomed by the world powers and they will take it seriously," Khaji told reporters.

He said the package, which was also handed over to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, officials in China, Switzerland, and Russia, called for an overhaul of an international treaty meant to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

Iran's envoy to the EU refused to go into specific detail of the plan, but said the proposals were linked to a wide range of top-of-agenda security issues the international community had to address together, with Iran's involvement, including terrorism, dictatorships, occupation and energy security.

"These issues must be dealt with together," Khaji said.

He said Iran, as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, had every right to generate nuclear power, reiterating Tehran has no intentions of developing weapons, something the West fears Iran is currently doing.

Khaji called for an end to current "double standards" by which other signatories like the US continued to develop new weapons while telling others they could not do so.